What’s stored up in the bank?
Before moving to our home in the forest I had the understanding that if you wanted to remove a tree, then you cut the tree down. Nothing left but a stump. End of tree. But oh no … …
He didn’t leave me like I was …
I mentioned in yesterday's blog post how I sat down yesterday morning to have some quiet time with Jesus, and God introduced me to a brand-new worship song! The words were very meaningful to me, because they led…
Relaxing
Ah yes ... lying right there in the middle of my bunchberry dogwood patch. Why not. Since my bunchberry dogwoods are so very tasty! Sigh.I'm not sure where the other two deer are ... they always hang together…
Lessons Learned: Slash … it isn’t all bad.
With our Forestry class coming to an end, I wanted to share some takeaway lessons from our class. One of the big lessons I have learned has to do with Slash. What is Slash? Slash is the leftover…
It depends … on what your objectives are.
As the Fall semester is coming to an end … so also our Forestry class is coming to a conclusion. Hubby and I have very much enjoyed our Forestry class! When we and our classmates first started our…
What you think about the most becomes the lens …
What you think about the most becomes the lens through which you view the world! TaDa!! Here you can see my socks! And you will never guess what my very first “blink” reaction is every time I look down…
Scratching each other the wrong way
I was sitting here typing up a blog post when the “dogs” started barking on my phone. (it’s my Ring driveway camera notification) Amazon deliveries don’t usually come at 8am … so it must be a deer … …
Is there a reason to have hope?
Behind our house is a deep ravine. Hubby and I have only ever been down into the ravine once. When our forestry professor came for our site visit a couple of weeks ago and we told him this,…
Are you weighed down?
The frost is finally bringing the leaves down. All summer I have been looking forward to using the Bigleaf maple leaves from the back to “mulch” the forest area in the front. But I have been so burdened…
What is true?? And what is not?
At our forestry field trip this past weekend we were in our first rotation about invasive weed species. Our teacher stepped over to the bushes and with her hand pruners she took three clippings from the “nasty blackberries”…